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Amit Kumar of Yahoo speaking on FlickrTRANSCRIPT
The Flickr APIby Amit Kumar
All photos Creative Commons licensed and sourced from Flickr.com, attribution in slide notes.
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What is
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Photo sharing community website
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lets you discover the world
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across all screens
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Photos for life
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And video too
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Why should I care ?
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People take photos
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People take photos(a lot)
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People(a lot) take photos (a lot)
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And from many devices
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Tag
GeoTag
Connect
Share
Comment
Favorite
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> 80 million members
> 3.5 million photo uploads/day
> 8 billion photo uploads
> 300 million photos geotagged
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How ?
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(flickr for robots)
Flickr API
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http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/
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API Authentication
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.oauth.html
No Passwords Just Tokens!
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Can do (almost) anything that Flickr can do
Access Meta data
Write!
Tags
Geo
exif
More!
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http://flickr.com/services/api
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Photo and Photoset APIs
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Group and Contacts APIs
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Interesting APIs
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Interesting APIs Continued
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> 200 API Methods
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API EXPLORER
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HTTP - http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.getRecent&api_key=****
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Or use
YQL
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http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html
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Demo
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What We like ?
labs.systemone.at/retrievr
App Garden (http://www.flickr.com/services/)
What would you build?
Have FUN